Lord randolph churchill biography
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Lord Randolph Churchill
Winston S. Churchill
New York: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., First U.S. edition, only printing. Hardcover. This is the first U.S. edition, only printing, of Winston Churchill’s biography of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. This U.S. edition is visually similar but aesthetically superior to its British counterpart, the volumes featuring gilt top page edges and a ribbed cloth binding with gilt and blind rules and the Marlborough Arms in gilt within a double blind ruled front cover panel.
This set is in good minus overall condition, sound, complete, and unrestored but showing age and experience. The cloth bindings retain strong red hue and bright spine and front cover gilt, but show moderate overall scuffing, fraying at points to the extremities, and some wrinkling and concavity to the spine cloth, particularly that of Volume I. The contents are notably bright and clean for the edition with no spotting, strong top edge gilt, and clean fore and bo
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Lord Randolph Churchill
British politician (&#;)
For his grandson, see Randolph Churchill. For the biography, see Lord Randolph Churchill (book).
Lord Randolph Henry Spencer-Churchill[a] (13 February – 24 January ) was a British aristocrat and politician.[1] Churchill was a Tory radical and coined the term "Tory democracy".[2] He participated in the creation of the National Union of the Conservative Party. He became Secretary of State for India, and later was Chancellor of the Exchequer. As Chancellor, he attracted both admiration and criticism across the political spectrum. Some critics were from his own party, including some of his friends. In he risked a tactical resignation as Chancellor to try to secure his position on armed forces expenditure, but the Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, accepted his resignation and replaced him, effectively ending Churchill's career.
His elder son was Winston Churchill, whose biography of him was published
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Lord Randolph Churchill (book)
Book bygd Winston Churchill
Lord Randolph Churchill was a two-part biography written bygd Winston Churchill of his father, the Victorian politician Lord Randolph Churchill. It was first published in
Background
[edit]From until , Churchill was engagerad in writing Lord Randolph Churchill, a two-volume biography of his father which was published in and received much critical acclaim.[1] However, filial devotion caused him to soften some of his father's less attractive aspects.[2]Theodore Roosevelt, who had known Lord Randolph, reviewed the book as "a clever, tactful and rather cheap and vulgar life of that clever, tactful and rather cheap and vulgar egotist".[3] Some historians suggest Churchill used the book in part to vindicate his own career and in particular to justify his crossing the floor to the Conservative Party in [4]